The Library

In 1893 Mrs Hannay set up a reading room in a builing in the Village called the Arches, it was open on a Saturday night and any villager could read a book for 1d. This was the forerunner to the public library and continued until the building was demolished in 1929.

 

There where two commercial libraries in Upton in the 1930s, the first was in Bridger's Newsagents and then a few years later, the second opened in Malley's Newsagent.

 

In 1937, Birkenhead Corporation built a library on land in Ford Road, almost opposite the .

Upton Library

The library had three rooms: a childrens library; a newspaper room; and the main library.
Upton Library

In 1963, when the Victory Hall in the Village was demolished, the war memorial was moved to the lawn in front of the library.
Upton Library

In November 2008, Wirral Borough Council announced that Upton Library, together with eleven other libraries in Wirral, would close as part of a 'strategic review'. At the council's cabinet meeting on 15th January 2009, Upton Library was reprieved.